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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Grieving as a teacher is a new experience for me. There are different layers to it, and it’s complicated. And it hurts.

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Any teacher connections have resources for coping when a student dies?

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Caroline Carlson @carolinecarlson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I love this thread, and actually feel a little proud that my books do tend to include these types of characters. They are very useful for comedy writing and for keeping your book out of High Fantasy territory. I prefer my fantasy to be Not Unreasonably Far From the Ground.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And in the real world, I'm wearying of people IRL confessing their LLM use to me, professing guilt, and then moving quickly to weak justification. They want absolution from the most vocally anti-AI person they know.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The snot tides are high today, lapping against my ankles as the bell rings for first period. I stare out the window before booting up the panoptic surveillance assistant our school can somehow afford.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Honestly wild that as a society we’ve settled on a “solution” to funding k-12 classroom supplies that is basically “please, for the love of god, send in tissues 🙏🙏🙏 your progeny are a never-ending deluge of unstoppable snot “

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nothing like a welcome back email from a principal that is obviously 100% Ai generated. Wish they respected and cared enough to put their own words down for us, but oh well.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Two Peloton instructors. Zero classroom teachers.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Woke up, made coffee, and sat at my laptop where companies gathered and shared information about my news consumption, entertainment preferences, shopping habits, and more. When I left the house, my departure time was recorded by my smart lock and my doorbell camera captured what I was wearing. 🧵

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's very strange people can't separate "will LLMs see increasing use in specialized fields?" from "Is it inevitable that LLMs remain a mass market consumer facing product?". The latter is very much not guaranteed. It only happened at all because OpenAI did a mentally carcinogenic marketing gimmick.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

aaron swartz is the most vindicated person of all time

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hey, here's a wild idea. What if some of the decision-makers *were* teachers?

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’ve seen a lot of Oscar speeches; I don’t think any kicker has stuck with me quite like just imploring the audience: “Make art. Make art.” With the addition of “tanks,” which has charmed me out of my shoes since the first time I heard him say it in 2005. youtu.be/qx8yLvb0gZM?...

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"Falling Slowly" winning Best Original Song Oscar®

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’ve been taking a summer break from Bluesky (and thinking) but every now and then some news seeps in and sends me back here to understand what’s really going on.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/04/2026

The precise concludes: "These findings supported the hypothesis that mindset can influence cognitive states in both positive and negative directions, suggesting a means of controlling one's health and cognition." There is, in short, a germ of truth in the "positive thinking" nonsense.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/04/2026

Basically the study finds that if you tell people they are well-rested, they *feel more well-rested*, independent of the actual amount of sleep they've had. People are entirely capable of "fooling themselves," not only into *thinking* they're well-rested, but into *feeling* well-rested!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/04/2026

There's really nothing to recommend it. You should bullshit yourself! Tell yourself you're good, you're capable, that a setback is an opportunity, a rejection is a chance to learn & grow, you're well-rested, things are going to work out, the world will take care of you. You'll be happier!

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Please pity those of us teachers who still have THREE DAYS LEFT.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

Dave Eggers, on NPR's Wildcard with Rachel Martin: www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...

"This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them to express themselves. But I say like you are one of one unprecedented in the history of human evolution. There's only one of you. …There's never been you in Ever, and there never will be another one of you. So to give your voice to a machine, to say 'speak for me, I'm going to be silent and I'm going to tell a machine to express myself or to tell my narrative,' is such a crime against yourself.

"It's so dystopian, beyond anything I could do in a dystopian novel— and I did a lot; I never saw this coming— would be an entire generation tempted and too many of them acquiescing to the the silencing of their own voice in favor of a bland unthinking machine to voice their souls.

"But if you can tell them, 'even your roughest drafts, even your most disjointed seeming thoughts are going to be valid; and your voice is essential; the human chorus is incomplete without your voice; and I'm going to listen to whatever you say, even the rough drafts, whatever; I want those; I want to see it all," then we can make sure that that they're heard and that they feel like there are humans out there that want to hear that voice and not the machine processed voice.

"…Good lord, we're at a really scary time, you know, but every adult has to be that person. Every teacher, every parent has to be the one saying, 'Do not do this.' Your voice is the only thing that you have naturally. It's the one thing that nobody can replace. So let's hear your truth. Even if it's raw, even if it's unpolished, even if it doesn't come in the five paragraph essay or whatever. Like, let's let's have it straight from you."

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

llms don't and can't love, hate, feel, care, think, imagine, dream, hope, fear, believe, reflect, aspire, wonder, empathize,... fix your your anthropomorphising language

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 23/05/2026

“Teachers make thousands of choices in a single day,” high school teacher Elizabeth Chapman writes. “I would argue that one of the best ones they can make is the choice to evaluate student work themselves, with their own human minds.” 🧠

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A Case for Human Evaluation of Student Work

A teacher who is optimistic about AI’s potential in education is nevertheless adamant about not using it to give students feedback.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 24/05/2026

“I hear you but I want a take-away that excuses my choice to continue using the environmentally, socially and economically destructive plagiarism machines for the things I find them handy for anyway” is an annoyingly common position.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Open up an assignment, immediately know it's generated, none of the detectors hit, can't give a zero because I can't "prove it," decide i cannot deal, shut laptop. Ad infinitum.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I genuinely do not see a reason not to outlaw the distribution and hosting of AI video generation

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21/05/2026

Obviously my students are self-selecting, but when I hear how they talk about AI vs. how university admin talks about AI...I don't think the university has any idea how much students resent it.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21/05/2026

Really sobering discussion with my 4th-year students as they contemplate post-graduate employment. They talked about "overwhelming anxiety," disappearing career ladders, fake job ads, no safety net, massive uncertainty, desperation... I really don't understand what we're doing.

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StabbyTabby 🔪🤘 @stabbytabby.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Since deleting Instagram from my phone, and limiting my overall social media time, life feels less noisy. I spend my down time in my garden with my dog, watching the birds outside, and actually taking in movies or shows because I am paying attention. It's nice. These apps steal our time.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In 2003 or thereabouts I had a first-year student at Virginia Tech deliver an utterly convincing persuasive speech on doing exactly this. That student is likely now a parent of school-aged children. Their child will probably be able to deliver the same speech ten years from now.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

AFT just uncritically going along with whatever positive coverage EdTech companies need. I wonder why...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I keep thinking about so many of these summary tools as being the equivalent of a proxy pre-chewing your food before you get to eat it, but chewing the food is by far the best part of food. Encountering nothing but an endless ocean of masticated mush seems like an unbearable culinary nightmare.

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Your grandma uses gen-AI? Mock her gently but relentlessly. Your students use it? Mock them savagely. Your favorite writer uses it? Mock her loudly and whenever she appears in public, because with the use of it, she has become a tool of the fascist oligarchs who want to kill us all.

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“Mock mercilessly anyone using generative AI until they cry” is the new “punch a Nazi.”

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Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This has been said to death but I'll just say it again: if you're in the creative arts space stop calling your art "content". Call it "work"! Calling your art "work" shows it's the result of time and skill. "Content" makes something sound like it has no purpose other than to take up space.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

‘If your instinct is to use AI, you shouldn’t be a writer.’ ‘Hand drawn animation’ ‘No AI touched this film’ I LOVE YOU SO MUCH SETH ROGEN 😭🥳 www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/...

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From the Fauxmoi community on Reddit: Seth Rogen in Cannes discussing AI in Hollywood "If your instinct is to use AI, you shouldn't be a writer."

Explore this post and more from the Fauxmoi community

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/05/2026

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Starting to vaguely suspect that students aren’t completely in love with being ground zero for mass data harvesting and punitive surveillance culture with egregiously reduced rights to speech and protest, but I could be wrong

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Burgum: When the sun goes down, solar panels produce zero electricity. The whole machine doesn't work. Rep. Huffman: I request to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the Secretary is unaware of. It's a battery. 😂

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Gotta say, having been in the initial convening on which this framework was to be based, these recs feel way out of step with the serious concerns folks were voicing about AI's commercial capture of education, teacher deskilling, short-circuiting of reading/writing processes, environmental costs.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Read through this framework this morning. I know a lot of work went into this from a lot of great folks, but have to be honest. In my view, this is a disappointing direction to be heading for NCTE, and I don't think of this as a helpful tool at all for our work right now.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In K-12, it contributed hugely to the transactional nature of teaching and learning along with online grade books. And it reinforced the push toward scripted curriculum by forcing teachers to plan in advance of knowing where your students were or what was going to happen in the world at large.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New kind of phone but no one can call you on it and it only contains your favorite thing to read. Also it’s made out of paper.

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Drew Daudelin @drewdaudelin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The answers are a mix of anodyne corporatist bullshit, and ridiculously credulous optimism that somehow edtech corporations will fix themselves when every financial incentive is to NOT.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

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